The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-01 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY MAGAZINE. Sketche r ," are h ere a choice variety of sonnets by the etche r ," not one of which but evidences a keen an d heart -felt sense of the poetical. That entitled The Sick Dream" is most felicitous in the flow of its melody, and reminds us, in the impassioned eha acter of its imagination of Coleridge's fine sonnet on ending Schiller 's Robbers. " C as i m i r P er i er " i s a i n ondtin uation of a biographical mem o i r w hi c h a pp eare d str th e last Number of Matza. It is strange—very .afonrgece....to see th e staunc h T ory, Chr i stopher North believe he rejects the more discreet title of Cons ervative —p ra i s i ng such a statesman as Perier. n 7hat ! h o l d up, as worthy of all possible laud, the icahnaries who w as an ultra-liberal throughout the reign of the Tenth ; w h o oppose d every measure tnrcsught forward by the Bourbons and their subal tern!' and to whose vigorous, unceasing opposition, rh al king, deep as i t did i nto t h e heart o f young France, e expulsion of the old, legitimate dynasty was in a great measur e owing ;—wriat, praise this staunch Liberal,., and even hold him up as the apostle of xor ! our -de) Christopher, where is your consistency ? own part,' however, we must confess that : e rejoic e i n t h is change of sentiment on the part of live to see the day when he will be shouting " Io ivr : a n.x" at Ambrose's in honour of a Melbourne i"elstry. " On the Food of the Herring and ali non" is a paper teeming with curious facts. "Thong hts and Images," by Archwus, contain grace 111 and singular, if not profound, reflections. The authoralit is One who evidently thinks for himself, and , opinions of such a man, set off as they are by the ,tiarins of an elegant style, studded with appropriate rna gery, are always worthy of respectful attention. " The Avenger" is an impressive story, founded on the old passio% of revenge , but treated in a manner far fro m tam e or hacknied. Interest is awakened at the eery first aae,. and does not once flag till the talc is b rought to P :close. We could wish, however, that the a uthor had adopted the dramatic, rather than the nar rative for m , w hi c h i s t h e on ly s tyl e suited to a sti rr i ng fiction, " An Introduction to the Philosophy of '"C onscious ness " is a subtle, metaphysical essay, evi dently the production of a master-spirit. Such papers seldom make their appearance in monthly periodicals, and are valuable, therefore, in proportion to their rarity. " The Lace Merchant of Namur" is a lively story, in which love and diablerie are mixed up toge ther, in a very relishing, hodge-podge sort of manner. In " Christopher in his Cave" we meet with some deep, quiet touches of pathos, which, springing from the writer's heart, make their way to that of the reader. We find also in this gem some delightful scraps of criticism. From the sonnets by the Sketcher, we 4 elect the " Sick Man's Dream :" A wintry night :—my casement with the blast Shook; the thin smoke from the dim hearth uperept, Like dew of slumber. on my slept. ..Me thought my Spirit, to the whirlwind cast, 'Wos hurl'd to vapoury caverns, thick and vast, Throu3h which the scourged ghosts, all howling, swept, And fork!'d lightnings pierced them as they pass'd ; And there were angels hid their eyes, and wept. I woke, and op'd my casement, as if there Some Spirit escaped for pity moaned loud. No fierce blast enter'd, but a gentle air; And wrathful mutterings ran from cloud to cloud. If well I did, or ill, He knoweth best Who made my after-slumbers calm and blest. 11-ENTLEY'S MISCELLAN Y. toz returns to t h e o ld Jew ' s " booz i ng-ken" this month in " Oliver Twist," and gives us one or two I , lTh ogh, str ew . pictures, worthy o f , s Jonathan wild. The portrait of Nancy is admirably conceived, and the brief touches of pathos in it, makewhich is thei f r ul s l va o y f to the heart. We sub j oin a scene life in every sentence : T he housebreaker was lying on the bed wrappsd in his Whit e great coat, by way of dressing-gown, and dis laying a 3 7 o f features in no degree improved by the cadaverous hue stiff, bla lines' and th e a ddi t i o n of a soiled nightcap, and a beard of a week's growth. The dog sat at the bedside, in .! eying hi s mas t er w i t h a w i st f u l l oo k, an d now pric k ing his -4 (3, and uttering a low growl as some noise in the street, or IC /he lower part of the house, attracted his attention. Seated by the window, i,llsily engage d i n patc hi ng an o ld wa i stcoat Ivhfeh formed a portion of the rubber's ordinary dress, was a femal e , so pale and reduced with watching and privation, that there would have been consderable difficulty in recognizing her as the same Nancy who has already figured in this tale, but for the voice in which she replied to Mr. Sikes's question. " Not l ong gone seven, " said the girl. " How do you feel to- night, Bill ?" t' , As w e ,sk as water," replied M r . Sik es , w i t h an impreca ou on his eyes and limbs. " Here ; lend us a hand, and let 'lle get off this thundering bed, anyhow." Illness had not improved Mr. Sikes's temper, for, as the girl raised him up, arid led him to a chair, he muttered various curses upon her awkwardness, and struck her. " Whinin g , are you ?" said Sikes. " Come ; don't stand sn i vel ling sn the re . If you can ' t do anyth i ng better than that, " off altogeth er . D' ye h ear me ?" f hear you," replied th e gi r l, tu rn i ng h er f ace as i de, and now ? form a laugh. " Wh at f ancy h ave you got in your head si k f you' ve th oug ht b e t ter o f i t, h ave you ?" growled the better Rutr making the tear which trembled i n h er eye. " All for you, you have." "W hY, you don't mean t o say you 'd b e h ard upon me to " .No Bill !" ?" said the girl, l a yi ng h er h an d upon his shoulder. cried M r . Sik es. " Why not ?" sy: Such a number of nights," said the girl, with a touch of zw_lntu's tenderness, w hi c h commun i cated something like zli6_einettsness of tone even to h er vo i ce— " such a number of you as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for You had been a child, and this the first that I've seen jun you r -1r ; .eu you wouldn't have served me as you did s now, if you'd thou ht of that, would you? Come, come; 8-T You wouldn't." g da sn il l Well, then," rejoined Mr. Sikes, , c I wouldn't. Why, Ise, now, the girl's whining again I" 4, )21 " ,31:t's nothing," said the girl, throwing herself into a chair. l 't You seem to mind me, and it'll soon be over." yoi"eeWhat'll be ove r ?" demanded Mr. Sikes in a savage 4.214 jiast;: What foolery are you up to now again ? Get tip, ~on sense.,a bout, and don't come over me with your woman's it ~/it any other time this remonstrance, and the tone in which "as delivered, would have had the desired effect - but the girl • ,tb e b eing really weak and exhausted, dropped her head; over back of the chair, and fainted. W e hope Boz will soon return with Oliver to the greou leaves and fields of the country, for he has really t iv eir 31 s quite enoug h o f l ow L ondon flash life, which , a s scarcely one redeeming merit. Yet we should sorr v wholly to lose sight of the old Jew, for his ' 8 a character painted with all the force and breadth of t iTect of a It„lrnbrandt. " Walter Childe," which is a .tole m ost gracefully versified in Frere ' s best manner, co ntain s a pleasi.ng and affecting ballad, which, on sc 'more leisure day we may be tempted to extract. Uncle Sam's Pecu:iarities" are as piquant and hu 111,ourous, as any of the oddities recorded by Sam 81j "k--that most original and puzzling of clock tnakers, Nights at Sea" are capital, and worthily iilalttitsitin ta g ted by Cruikshank. " Nonsense" is a lively, chapter on love, from the pen of the Editor o f ' th e Literary Gazette. " A Parisian Sabbath" exhibits Berne descriptive talent, but the arti c l e i s t oo muc h Vim out. "Mr. Robert Bolton" is a sketch of a p enny-a-liner for the newspapers. The sketch wants o welt}, And does not make up for this defect by live ;ll' t ss• It may, however, pass muster. " Barney w i res Account o f t h e C oronat i on, " is an inge niouis parody o n t die " Groves of Blarney." In the Latv;.n translation of i‘ Napoleon's Midnight Review," t he author shows a desperote ignorance of the hexameter and pentameter metre—by far the easiest of all the telassie metres. Not only is his Latinity bad, b u t it is full of false quantities. In not less than two in :stanc,-?s he makes the first syllable in is dueem" long, 'whereas it is s h ort, as the following well-known line list Virgil ri,:;glit have told him ..‘ Te, duce, si qua manent sceleris vestigia no.stri." Again, he makes the two last syllables in " Borea" a s lbondee, whereas it forms an iamb, in proof of which lere again adduce Virgile--,- " Ecce autem Boreas augtota at sede Pelori." • I3esides these metrical blunders, he Latinity through *:?ut is bad and prosaic, and such as a fourth-form boy at Eton or Reading would be ashamed t o ta to his m as t er on Monday morning. We ay l ay Idle more stress on this would-be atin poet's defects, because th e compos i t i on of Latin L verse is little better t fan .a mere mechanical operation, and should there fore' be .scrupulously correct. When we say tt m c ,.„ t han:cal," we do not mean the term to apply to such writers AS Vida Buchanan—whose " Ode on May" is as heauti!ul th: ode on the " Blandusian Fountain" of Horace with th e exceptio n o f one prosaic peri phrasis —or Milton, Grey, Vincent Bourne, Cowper, and other writers of Latin poe,try that we could men tion; but simply to those who, like the inditer of the poem before us, imagine that because they can con strue, parse, and scan an hexameter of ViTil or Ovid, they are fully equal to the composition of one. We should be heartily glad, for the sake of the rising ge neration, when this scholastic pedantry is done away with. It is a sad waste of time, and lea3s to no useful result. " The Dead Clearing" is a stirring anecdote, told in an impressive manner. " The Diamond Company" is a whimsical sketch by an author who signs himself " Johns." NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. " Wine and Water" is by Theodore Hook. It is an anecdote told with much _point and humour ; and we fancy we can discern in it the materials for some future farce. The scene where the distracted lover imagines that he has been on the eve of taking poison, when it was simply red wine negus, is broad enough, es pecially in the matter of dialogue, to have been written by Colman. The " Parrot" is a small poem, by no means in Campbell's most fortunate or polished style. " Paddy in Search of a Son" is a travelling remi niscence, recorded by the author of " Highways and Byeways." The sketch of Tim Conoily, who is the hero of the narrative, is genuine Irish, and brought out with much s kill. " The' Lesson of Life" is one of the most spirited tales we have yet met with from the pen of Jerrold. Some of the dialogue portion is written with great energy. In the article entitled " Steam Voyage from London to Paris"—for which we are indebted to Mr. Quin—there are some good descriptive passages, especially of the river scenery of the Seine, which is a yet unhacknied subject. . " The Admiral's Daughter" is an ingenious quiz by Mr. Poole, who in this good-humoured style of irony has no superior among the humorists of the day. " An Essay on Oysters" is by no means so light of digestion as its subject. It is, in truth, some what prosy and long-winded. The author is Mr. Smith, of " Rejected Addresses" celebrity. The Manager's Note- Book" furnishes us with a bio graphical sketch of the late comedian Emery, whose Fixture, in Morton's farce of a Roland for an Oliver, we well remember as one of the most striking—indeed perfect—performances of the day. From this Memoir we quote an anecdote which we do not remember to have met with before : " Emery visited a medical gentleman in Charlotte-street, Portland-place, who, independent of his great professional skill, was an amateur artist of considerable talent, and greatly attached to the stage and its professors. Emery went to the Doctor's first dinner invitation in his usual dress—drab frock coat, striped waistcoat, corduroys, and topped boots, with about an inch and a half of dark speckled worsted stockings peeping between the knees of his breeches and the tops of his boots. At rather an early hour the guests were summoned to the drawing-room—for it was the Doctor's practice to kill— not his patients, but to kill two birds with one stone,' and invariably invited a large evening party on.the same day with his dinner friends. By this arrangement he made the plea sures of the evening bear the reflections of the morning,' and not, as the old song has it— To cure the headaches of last night, The peaceable king's subjects fight. It certainly prevented those excesses, too frequently caused by sittings after dinner, and benefited his wine-cellar. It was Emery's lot to be placed on a white sofa, between two young ladies, elegantly attired. All eyes were upon him, it having been previously a hi,pered that he was coming. The singu larity cf Lis dress, IA hieh was certainly more suited to Tatter sall's than the tea-table, did not escape their observation, which he perceiving, was (net a very common thing with him) put to the blush. Ile hid his legs, as well as he could, under the sofa, spread a large Barcelona pocket-handerchief over his knees, and looked neither right nor left. His counte nance pourtraycd anything but tranquillity ; and he remained in the same position for full half an hour, uttering not a word. All at once he started up, made for 0 e !oor, which was at the farther end of a very large room, and bolted out of the house. A few weeks alter he received a second invitation ; upon which occasion he went dressed—white smalls, silk stock ings, shoes, buckles (which were then indispensable in dress) cocked hat, &c. &c. When at dinner lie seemed uncomfort able and encumbered. lie appeared to sigh for that lie had left behind'—his frock and corduroys. In the drawing-room he was still more embarrassed than on his first visit, though from a different cause. No words can express the awkward figure he cut : dress did not become him.' And, to add to his comfort, he was pressed to sing by a young lady, who vo lunteered to accompany him. Singing, above all things, he disliked, even on the slse: however, sing he must; and a song of his own writing was particularly solicited. lie sung Madam Fig's Gala,' lie a Yorkshireman just come to town,' &c. At the Doctor's future dinners he contrived to depart when tea MIS announced, and never made a third ap pearance at the evening parties." FRASERS MAGAZINE. The essay on " Greek Comedy" on which so many able papers have appeared from time to time in the Quarterly, and more especially in the Edinburgh Re view, displays, if not profound erudition, at least much elegant scholarship. The character of Aristophanes, as a dramatist, is shrewdly delineated ; and the cur sory remarks on Shakspeare that are interspersed throughout the article, pierce far below the mere sur face of criticism. But why does the author hazard such an assertion as that " it is difficult to understand why the earlier writers of Greece and Rome mention the nightingale so rarely. Virgil briefly alludes to her in the fourth Georgic ; and Horace in his beautiful ode to that poet, mentions her song among the delights of the season." This is said hastily, from an imper fect recollection. Virgil makes more than one allusion to the nightingale,—in his sixth Eclogue, for instance; Tibullus speaks of her ; so, if we remember rightly, does Propertius ; and she forms the subject of one of Ovid's finest tales i❑ the Metamorphoses. The Greeks have still more frequent allusions to her ; indeed there is no bird whose mere name recalls so many classical reminiscences. " Ensign O'Donoghue's Packet from Belgium" is penned in a lively, ;dashing style, more Hibernico. The accounts of some of the minor Ger man watering-places, may vie in cleverness with those naive sketches entitled " Bubbles from the Brunens of Nassau." There is, however, here and there, a little too much exaggeration in the way of jocularity. " Our Club at Paris" give a most satirical portrait of Talley rand : " Talleyrand always appeared to me in the light of an im mense political dandy. He was the combined and condensed essence of a thousand Beau Brummels. He astonished the ignorant by his impudence, and even the impudent by his in solence. He was a great political mountebank—the ablest legerdemain trickster of the age. He hocus-pocused in poli tics; no fair play ; no honesty ; no science ; no knowledge. He never had one friend ; he never shed a tear ; he never heaved a sigh ; he was at heart an unbeliever. He believed ri!)t in woman's love—in genuine frienchhip—in truth, prin ciple, virtue, or religion. He died as he lived—at least a practical atheist." This is smartly enough said, but it errs widely from the truth. The man, who occupyin , ° the prominent position T a ll e y ran d did—Bishop, Aristocrat, and Statesman—could keep his head on his shoulders during the ferment of the French Revolution, could have been no mere " political dandy ;" of his principles we will not say much, for we believe, he did nut by any means abound in them ; but he must have been a Statesman of the very highest order of intellect, who could have foreseen, when no one else even so much as dreamed of it, the destruction of Napoleon in the invasion of Spain, previous to the march to Moscow ; and provided himself—obnoxious as he must have been to the Bourbons—with a secure shelter, when the storm at length burst on the empire. The Edinburgh Re view In its last number, is nearer the truth than Fra ser, though that praises Talleyrand in terms far too encomiastic. " The Yellow,:lush Correspondence,'' is mere vulgar twaddle ; the " Scottish Press," full of useful practical details ; and i.he " English Officers in the Carlist Camp," a very amusing collection of per sonal anecdotes. " Homeric Ballads," by Dr. Ma ginn are clever, but they want simplicity, and above all, terseness. He calls them translations ; they are rather paraphrases. The line for instance, " Ta) CV .',"%'7LIC7Ti% £7. - EL E*, , which means simply, " she could never persuade his mind," the Doctor renders in this vague, redundant manner, " But all her promise, all her art Made no iin;-ireshitin on his heart, Nor shook his steadfast truth." We might adduce many other instances of this na ture, where the original thought, expressed perhaps, in half a line, is diluted into three or four vapid cou plets ; but the above must suffice. " O'Connell's Plea for a Peerage," also, we presume, by Maginn, is a laughable extravaganza, which Dan himself will be the first to read with pleasure. MONTHLY CHRONICLE. This is the best Number that has vet appeared. The remarks on Lord Brougham are just in the main, but, in paces, an unfriendly spirit is pretty unequivo cally manifested. The writer, however, does ample justice to his Lordship as an orator, observing that " his speeches sustain and will preserve his fame, as one of the greatest speakers of a land that has had no eluAls in watory (iVlirabeau alone excepted) since the ancients." The only objection we have to this re mark is, that Mirabeau is praised immeasurably above his deserts. Compare such a man with Chatham, Burke, Canning, Brougham, or even Grey ! hy, he was not fit to hold a rushlight to them Look at the fragments of his speeches preserved in the pages of the revolutionary historians—especially in those of fliers, who, admiring the man, took care to select none but his most successful flights ! What do you find there ? Mere flashy, clap-trap appeals to the passions of an audience, at a time when their judg ment was l a id as l ee p. There are no enlarged vi ews of state smans hi p — no p hil osop hi c principles of th oug h t and action suggested. INCrabeau was the mere adroit panderer to the passions of time mob ; the director of the phrenzy of the moment; and even in this capacity was far surpassed by Danton. To say the best of him, he was a flashy, superficial rogue and renegade, wh o had the good luck just to die in time for his reputation. Had he lived one year longer, he would have been ex posed in all his hollowness. " Zicci," by Bulwer -deepens in interest as it proceeds. The present chap ters contain much picturesque painting. The " Life of the Duke of Wellington" is worth reading, not so much as a repertory of facts, as from the inferences the writer draws from them. His Grace is eulogised of course, but not beyond his deserts ; and the most fitting construction is put upon the " untoward" affair of Marshal Ney. "Announcement of a new grand Ac celeration Company for the Promotion of the Speed of Literature" is a lively squib, and the " Monthly Re view of Literature" marked by judgment and temper. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1838. TAIT'S EDIIVBURGH MAGAZINE. Those who are all anxiety—and their name is Legion—to obtain a knowledge of the main purport of the original historical introduction to the speeches of Lord Brougham, now announced for publication, will find much to gratify their curiosity in the' first article in Tait's Magazine for this month. One of those cunning:familiars that perpetually hover about the pre cincts of a printing-office—yclept Printer's Devils— must have favoured our friend Tait with early proof sheets of this work ; for on looking over the other publications of the month, we find only expressions of regret for its non-appearance---the Mon/lily Chronicle only excepted. Our northern Contemporary is not una ware of the triumph he has achieved in being the first to unseal the new fountain of living waters to the public. He assures us that " Since the anticipated appearance of a new Waverley Novel, in the pristine and palmy days of the Waverley Novels, there has been nothing known in these northern regions to equal the buzz and flutter of expectation, which have hatbingered the ap pearance of the collected speeches of Lord Brougham." After assigning these effects their proper causes he thus continues—" In the meanwhile, however, and in the first blush of the business, there is more curiosity about the pithy adjuncts to these splendid effusions of intellectual power, experienced wisdom, and unrivalled oratorical accomplishment than about their essential substance. Happy and proud is the man who has had a glimpse of a proof-sheet, or heard a passage dis torted at second hand, or ever seen the favoured mortal who has viewed these oracles, or divined aright one sentence of their pungent contents. For it is not at this early stage the speeches alone for which the public appetite is whetted :—those powerful and impulsive specimens of the highest kind of modern eloquence remain for the study of leisure— for the delight and the admiration of posterity. The world is athirst to know what Lord Brougham has to say of his Contemporaries, his political opponents, and his late colleagues in office ; what of the prospects of the nation under the inauspicious rule of the Whig- Tory Ministry ; what of the predicament in which he has been placed by their intrigues and circumvention ; by their apprehension of his bold fearlessness so often proved Court-ward ; and, above all, of his power with the people." We need scarcely intimate that a writer who could so well appreciate the public feeling abroad, and having ample means at his dis posal, was not likely to fail in affording it the richest gratification. What the ‘.-world is athirst" to know of Lord Brougham's op'.nions of the men and mea sures of to-day, is profusely, but with a right judicious liberality supplied by our Radical Contemporary. " Sismondi's Studies of Free Constitutions" is a clever sketch by an intelligent clear-headed Radical, who is evidently capable of giving good reasons for the faith that is in him. All who take an interest in the pro gress of education among the working classes will be delighted with the spirit and tendency of the article on " Mechanics' Institutions." Were the plan of self-in struction and subsequent distinction, which it suggests adopted, it would not be long before the base of the social edifice would present an appearance as beautiful as it is now unsightly. The " Chronicle" of the Pa triot Martyr points a moral of which the people have never yet comprehended the full force—namely, that their disunion forms the iron sceptre of despotism. The reviews of the " Woman of the World," a n d " Howitt's Colonization and Christianity," arc like all those admirable summaries of new books that appear io Tait—unrivalled as judicious epitomes of these widely different, but in their respective depaaments, very clever productions. The verses are indifferent, and the monthly notices too scanty ; but upon th e whole the present number is a decidedly good one. SHERWOOD'S MONTHLY MISCELLANY. There is a poem in this Number headed the " Stranger," which contains many good thoughts and poetic images, but is not less than twenty-two pages in length, which is about as long as the third canto of " Childe Harold." Surely this is giving us too much of a good thing I A feast is well enough, but a sur feit is not to be endured. In consequence of its inor dinate length, we have been utterly unable to go through this poem, and many of our readers, we doubt not, will find themselves in the same predicament. Th e " Fatal Affection" is a tale of the first French Revo lution, and exhibits no slight talents for story-tellin g . Publishing and Authorship" comments in very just terms on some of the puffing practices had recourse to by booksellers to get rid of their " last new novel." This practice is evidently wearing itself out—in fact, it is all but in articulo mortis, and we arc not sorry for it, for it is the ruin of all healthy literature. " Notes and Gleanings" are full of agreeable anecdotes and curious facts, stated in a light, pleasant, off-hand manner. Altogether, the Number is a very cre ditable one. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL. Allen and Co. The Review of " Easter►: News" for the last month is so brief as to be of no utility whatever. This is very absurd, after the pains taken by the public Press to impress upon the Editor the great importance of devoting more than ordinary care to a novel, hut very necessary, department in a monthly periodical, devoted to the discussion of questions, and the recording of events, connected with the East. The best articles in this Number—and notwithstanding what we have just said, it has more than the average merit—are "The Elfin Fox," a tale from the Chinese, " Hyderabad," " \\Tars between Burtnah and China," and some ex cellent remaiks on the " Education of the Natives of India." The publication of the " Penal Code of British India" is continued, accompanied with a very sensible commentary in the shape of notes upon each chapter. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. Saunders and °thy. The " Loaded Dice," by the O'Hara Family, is concluded in this Number. Though not wanting in interest, w e cannot spea k so highly of it, as we are justly in the h a bi t o f doing when noticing Mr. M Banim'sMagazine T a l es . I t i s wanting in the two qualiti es f or w hi c h t h e author of the O ' Hara Fam il y is most distin gu i s h e d — power and pathos. We p re much better satisfied with th e c h aracter of the late Chief Baron Joy, as we find it drawn in the '- Note-Bojk of an Irish Barrister," th oug h very far from a flattering portrait of that too-emin en t judge. The " Courtier of the Reign of Chalks II." is a tale by Mrs. Gore, which from a slight glance over we are inclined to pro nounce among the best in these pages. The P a stor of Grindelword" is a simple and touching sketch of the family afflictions of one of those pious Ministers of the Gospel with which the untravelled delight to peo ple the romantic vales of Switzerland. " Venice and its Dependencies" is not near so interesting as such an article might be made, th oug h still a paper of consi derable historical research, The " Twin Sisters," by Mrs. Abdy, is very pretty, and very plaintive. Taken all in all, the Number does credit to the discriminating abilities of the Editor, as well as to the talents of the various contributors. THE DUBLIN MAGAZINE. Holdsworth. " Rubi, a Tale of the Sea," is concluded in this Number. Its interest was powerfully .siiiiained from the commencement ; and the last cans but con firmed the impression made upon 41444fid by the perusal of the first—namely, that the author is a true poet. The " Drunkard's Dream" is too laboured to suit our taste. There is a certain stern simplicity —an absence of all circumlocution and wordiness of de taU, which is essential to the proper narration of domestic tragedy. The " Student of Leipsic" is a better told tale, but it wants incident. Most of the other articles are written in a sectarian spirit, and for the most part relate to questions fitter for discussion in a Convocation of Churchmen than in the columns of a Newspaper. The only exception is the " Antho logia Germanica," from which we copy the following outpouring of a spirit truly German : Were Hope all my eye, 'Tis a fact I should die, Her light is much brighter than ten tallow-candles ; When crotchets and cares are consuming Some fanciful spooney, she takes him Where cowslips and daisies are blooming, And never entirely forsakes him Till Death lays him down in the box without handles. Handles, handles, The box without handles, Till Death shuts him up in his box without handles. Were Friendship a hum, I could weep o'er my rum, For I hate to be mixing companionless tumblers. Even moles, quoth Buffo)), are gregarious, And cats, when they turn caterwaulers ; moi, I like various contrarious Assemblies—both puncbdrinking bawlers And sighers of sighs—both your grinners and grumblers. Grumblers, grumblers, Your grinners and grumblers, I have grins for your grinners and growls for your grumblers. Were Love all a hoax, So that no one could coax A rich widow to wed, what could well be forlorner ? To be wheedling some innocent charmer, Who reckons her thousands by thirties, And hasn't the heart to wear armour Against Cupid's arrows, is, certes, Far better than moping alone in a corner. Corner, corner, Alone in a corner, More pl easant than kicking your heels in a corner. Were Music a bam, I might chatter and cram, But a seal world be clapped on my Fountains of Feeling. Oh ! nothing melts bosoms at all like The exquisite tones of a fiddle! I hop round the room at a ball like A hen on a scorching hot griddle!! Good lack ! I could bound from the floor to the ceiling. Ceiling, ceiling, The floor to the ceiling, Next night, faith, I'll bob my big head through the ceiling. Were Wine all a quiz, I should wear a long phiz As I mount e d each night to my ninth-story gai ret. Though Friendship, the traitress, deceives me, Though Hope may have long ceased to flatter, Though Music, sweet infidel, leaves me, Though Love is my torment—what matter ? I've still such a thing as a rummer of claret. Claret, claret. A rummer of claret, I laugh and grow fat on my buttermilk caret. THE MONTHLY MA GA ZINE. Sherwood and Co. "Alfred de Rosann ; or, The Adventures of a French Gentleman," is continued with great spirit this month. Th e aut h or is Mr. Reynold's, whose Pickwick Abroad" was generally allowed to exhibit a fair portrait of the manners of the middling and lower classts in Paris. " Russian Literature since 1815" is concluded in this number, and from the manner in which the author has executed his task—a very diffi cult one it must be allowed—we only regret that he did not extend his labours far beyond what he has at: empted to do in these essays. His concluding observations are as just as they are well conceived. Besides the first article, Mr. Reynolds has contributed one " On the Modern French School cf Literature," in which the literary pretensions of Frederic Soulie, a novelist all but unknown in this country, are canvassed in a spirit of liberal—we had almost said laudatory criticism. The admirers of Magazine embellishments will b e gratified to learn that, in addition to the usual quantity of letter-press, this Number contains two of Crowquill's most spirited engravings. UNITED SERVICE, JOURNAL This periodical, as we have often had occasion to observe, is excellent club reading, for it is not taken up with mere literary matters, but discourses of things that are of general interest, especially to officers of the army and navy. The Number before us is one of the best we have seen, containing two articles---a " Ram ble in Persia," and a " Run to the North Coast of France," which are just the sort of reading for club loungers. Mr. T. Cooke is musical director to Covent Garden next season, and his pupil Miss Rainforth will be prima donna. ACCIDENTS ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL WAY.-On Sunday night a train of empty carriages was dispatched from Paddington to Maiden head, to bring u p p assen gers on Monday morning. Betwe en Hanwell and West Drayton, this t ra i n came into collision train; the carriage was brok en t o p i eces and the engine io serious injury was d one to any individual On with a ballast carriage , the conductors of which were not aware of the m co u m c i h ng da o ni f athgeed:but t Monday morning, near the same spot, one of the steam pipes burst, when the engineer fearing an explosion, th rew hi mself from the en gine and was much hurt. The accident delayed the train two hours and a half. On the same evening, one of the Company's porters, in at tempting to get on one of the carriages, was thrown under the wheels, arid his legs so shockingly crushed, that it is feared he cannot survive, unless amputation of both legs take place. On Monday morning the nine o'clock train , from Maidenhead, was a pp r oaching weembault Scrubs, when the usual si g nal—the shrill wh istle—being given to that they immediately bolted off an d ran upon the were in an instant knocked down b y t h e train—the bs°meed workmen therkinie employed on the railway, had such an effect, corn _ inn oise of the engine, on two horses i n c h arge of a boy r n a e i a l r w a t y l i . e r T a i l l , w e y a y, boy fell under one o f the horses, but esca p ed mos t miraculously ; th e horses, however, were killed, the train literall y cutting them to pieces. This is not the first accident that has happ ene d to cattle upon this i h .„ e• Surely the Directors should see that proper fences be put up, to prevent similar recurrences. (F ROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—A young Cler gyman of the dioces e of Hereford has resolved, under the auspices o f the author of " len," and some elder poets of the hi g h est fame, to pub. lists a dramatic poem of a religious character, the enti re profits of its sale to be forwarde d to the Committee for erectin g a column to the gal lant Nelson. Its title will probably be " Montanti, or the Abbot's Dream," and an interesting conversion to the views of Malanctlion, the y patronised by his Grace the Duke of Buccleueli. mild Reformer, will form its main attraction. It Is understood that it appears by a Return ordered by the House of Commons that the declared value of bones of cattle and other animals, and of fish (except whale tins), whether burnt or not, or as will i ti 3 e o s N tro E n s g . l__ lt animal charcoal, imported into the United Kingdom in the year 1835 amoun ted to 155, 279 /. 9s . 11d.; an y d , in 1836 to 171,8061 . 7s. 10.1. ' manufactured goods has become more lan gu id , an.' there has bee r ii k be t u for STATEtlitor the last f ew d ays cur marl little business OF TRADE.—For doing in any fabric of cloth for either borne or foreign consumption ; there has, however, been a moderate amount of sales effected in yarns far exportation, although at very depressed rates; for other descriptions the demand continues very limited, and at rather drooping prices.—P reston Observer. - H A YM AIIK ET TH EA T R E.—The Jealous Wife was admirably performed on Monday night, with the spirit and eff ct of genuine comedy, and producing a more continuous enjayment on the part of th: audience than is often witnessed. Mrs. Warner was the wife, and she pourtrayed precisely the jealousy of such a woman as Mts. Oakley, that of irritated temper, and not of wounded feeling. There was no aberration into affectionate emotion, except where the author has compelled it, in the last scene, in order to patch up the conclusion of his play. And there Mrs Warner did the best that could be done for him, having the bearing rather of a subdued spirit than of erring af. f!cti , n convinced and corrected. Women of the Mrs. Oakley eLss, as they want nothing of love but the exclusive servility that belongs to the meanest feeling by which the name is usurped, only experience, for jealousy, the petty spitefulness of intolerarce and irritation. The im plied character was aptly indicated in the interview with Lady Free love (Mrs. W. Clifford) ; and the suggestions of the one and the suspi cions of the other, with the assumptions of frankness and of respect in their demeanour, made this scene an exquipite piece of acting. The very devil seemed in both the women, though it pleased him to matilfcst his presence in dill'orctit ways, that the world might have vailety of plagues. hi Mr. Oakley the complete mastery of Mr. Macready over the lightsomeness of comedy is, perhaps, rendered more apparent to an audience generally than in anything else he does. He plays the part, and he plays with the vat It is like a juggler's ball in his hands, al ways caught bef ore it comes to the ground. Lord Tr i nket and bir Harry Beaglewere one of Strickland' s b est old men ; and no pat t or scene i n the lily could well support e d by W e bster and Buckstone ; Russet is be called a fail ure, unless it was that of Charles Oakley ' s drun k enness. The play was announced for repetition on Thursday w.th universal applause. • Yesterdav mornin g the lash was again put in ope ration at the Marine Barracks, Woolwich. The offender, whose name is E:ijah Hopkins, is a very bad character, and has been tried before by a court_martial, although he has been but two months in the re. giment. The off lice of which he has been found guilty on this occasion was for throwing a cub at Sergeant Morris, while at drill, ror which h was sentenc,d to re:Tive 100 lashes. At an early hour Hopkins was tied up to the halberds, and svceivcd his sentence without a mmmur. On being taken (tow,. he c,:lled out to the con - Imam:in facer that " it was a good br , aifast." He was then removed to the infirmary. THE LATE NI)WrERIOIJS :AFFAIR AT ST. PA N cais —CaProrte cr Myea,..—On Tuesday last Myers arrived at Bou. logne in the M agnet steam.vessel. While on board some one who was aware of the ver di ct returned against Myers recognised him, and the information h av i ng born communicated to Captain Stock, the master, and also to th e steward, f the Magnet, they gave him i nto t h e custody of the gendarmes on his arrival on the quay, and he was conveyed to the French prison in the town of Boulogne. On Saturday evening Myers was sent back to London in the Hailequin steamer, and is now in safe custody in New,;ate. GRAND PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION AT NORTHAMPTON IN FAVOUR OF THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER" AND THE NATIONAL PETITION. On Monday last a highly important meeting of the inhabitants of Northampton took place upon the Race-course. Early in the morning the town was paraded by bands, banners, flags, &e., and although the day was unusually stormy the town bore the appearance of a general holiday. The placards convening •the meeting announced that Mr. Henry Vincent (of London) would be'present. About noon deputations arrived from Kettering, Buckby, and other towns and villages. The Kettering people displayed a splendid flag, upon which was inscribed " Justice to all." About half-past two o'clock the members of the Wo king Men's Association and the country deputations, together with an immense concourse of the inhabitants, assembled on the Market_ square. The procession then formal, and the banners and flags were placed in suitable positions; amongst the numerous devices we noticed " The People's Charter," " The National Pe' ition," " Universal Suf. frage," " Annual Parliaments," " No Propetty Qualification," "Equal Representation," " Vote by Ballot," " Paymmt of Members," " Edu. cation for the People," &c. &e. At three o'clock the band struck up, and the procession moved on through the principal streets, and arrived on the Racecourse about four. Upon taking ud their position at the Grand Stand, Mr. Jo,. Wright, a working man, was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in a short and impressive speech opened the business cf the meeting. He pointed out the immense importance of the ob. ject that had brought them together; the necessity of the people pre serving order and decorum, and the certainty of eventual success. He was loudly cheered. Mr. ROBERTSON come forward to move the first resclution. He dwelt upon the present degraded condition of the great mass of the people, the anomalous political position of the working classes, and proved that the first step towards remedying the evils was by infusing into the House of Commons the principles of universal representation. He moved the following resolution :—" This meeting is of opinion that the cause of all the evils under which the working and trading classes of this country labour is the defective state of the representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament, and that the only mode of removing those evils is by the establishment of a Parliament composed of the wise and the good of every class, and devising the best possible means of promoting the happiness of all." Mr. TIIORNE seconded the resolution. The CHAIRMAN next briefly introduced Mr. Vincent to the meeting. Mr. VINCENT, in coming forward, was loudly cheered. He ad dressed the meeting at considerable length on the subject of Uni versal Suffrage and the other principles embodied in the " People's Charter." He addressed himself to those who advocate household suffrage in opposition to universal suffrage, and clearly showed that universal suffrage would enfranchise far more intelligent men than household suffrage, and could not possibly enfranchise more unintelli gent men. He adverted to the great mass of intellectual young men who live in lodgings in the metropolis and all the large towns. After overthrowing she various fallacies of the brick-and.mortar-sufftage men, he then took up the question upon the broad and comprehensive prin ciple of "the greatest amount of human happiness." He proved that universal suffrage would be the people's best instruction—that it would I;ft them up in their own estimation—that it would level aristocratic pretensions and prejudices—that it would give the people the means of increasing the social happiness of every human being. Mr. Vincent's speech embraced a variety of topics of momentous importance, and as we have not a report of his remarks, we can simply say he produced a very powerful impression upon his hearers—was listened to with marked attention—and repeatedly hailed with enthusiastic cheering. The Rev. J. C. Meetly next addressed the meeting. He called upon the working classes to rally round the Working Men's Association. He called upon them to contend for universal suffrag^, and maintained they were better qualified to exercise the suffrage than the middle classes, whose knowledge consisted in measuring yards of tape, 'and casting up their accounts. The Rev. J. JENKINSON, of Kettering, addressed the meeting in a very powerful speech, and was loudly cheered. After excellent sp..eckss from other friends, resolutions were carried by accLmation in favour of the " People's Charter" and the National Petition ; and after voting thanks to Mr. Vincent, to which he briefly replied, three cheers were given for the Men of Eitmingham, three cheers for the London Working Men's Association, three cheers for the People's Charter, and the meeting separated. IRELAND. THE NEW AGITATION.—This is the prefix of a long Anti-Ministerial article in the Pilot concluding in the following terms :—•` We want that agitation should not be merely to preserve, as it did before, certain men in power. But that, in effecting this for certain men, they, on their parts, shall be distinct and explicit, and tell us what they will do return for the people ? What measures will they pledge themselves to carry, if wa once snore place them on the van►age ground of political strength ? We call, then, on our Liberal and independent Contempo raries throughout Ireland—and we know many of them upon whom we shall not call in vain—to re-echo our demand. We all say, Let us agitate.' The wise and the independent will also add—' What shall we agitate for ?' " The Mail of Monday insinuates that Mr. O'Connell is on the eve of taking office, and that his letter bears cut the conjecture. Lord Ban don, who spurned the accusation as au imputation that he would dis possess his tenantry, has, nevertheless, got a vet diet against them at the Ccrk A ssizes. The poor harassed men have saved some points of law; but, oh I the Irish Tory Aristocracy, what are they ? flow dare their Pa; crs talk of Irish crime as a charge upon the Government ?—Pilot Timm—Yesterday (Tuesday) was fixed fur a meeting of the bitants of the barony of Cranagh, county of Kilkenny, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the total abolition of tithes.—lbid. IRISH MUNICIPAL BILL. The subjoined letter from Mr. °Tonne!: to the Editor of the Pilot was published in that paper last' Monday London, July 28, 1838. MY DEAR BA RREIT—I beg of you to apologise to my constituents for _ _ _ the non-appearance on Monday of my second letter on the subject of the alterations—falsely styled amendments—in the Municipal Refotm Biil. I have b:en so busily engaged at Canterbury and eNewhere since I sent off to you my first letter, that I have not had time to compose the second. For , the present, I will content myself with calling the attention of the Irish people to the insulting mockery of c.nporate reform offered to Ireland by Lord Lyndhurst and the Duke of Wellington. The former has, by his decision in the great case of Small and Attwood—a decision most properly reversed —demo•istrated to the profession of the law, and the public in general, that lie has a mind so constituted as to be utterly incapable of appreciating what is right and just. Nature has made him unconsciously fit to be the tool of our meanly cunning and hateful Orange faction. Such 11, is, and such he ever shall be. As to the Duke of Wellington, the malignant persev erance o f hi s hatred of the people of his native land, might astonish any person who was ignorant if the manner in which the ascendancy folk of his youth were educated—l should rather say brought up —at the time he grew from a Castle page into manhood. The bitter hate and insolent con tempt of the natives of Ireland were the leading sentiments instilled into their minds from their childhood. The Duke of Wellington has risen into much fame and f reater fortune, but he preserves all the mei neos and vigour of his anti-national and anti-Irish feeling, with as keen a gusto as if he were still a page at the Castle to a Northumberland or a Iladdington, or to some other bigot Lord Lieutenant. He cannot help it—he is, perhaps, the only " great man" the world ever saw who had, not one single trait of patriotism, and never exhibited one generous or noble sentiment either in expression or in deed. My just resentment to the insulting duo, has taken me away from the " alterations" themselves. I will, by Monday's post, send you a detail of their insolent malignity. Take a few hurried remarks. By the 4th clause—a new clause introduced by Lord Lyndhurst— the Dublin fictitious freemen are to be continued in the exercise of their Parliamentary franchise for ever. At present they acquire the franchise by unjust collusion with the Co nmon Council and Aldermen. He►eafter they are to hare the fran. chise in despite of the Council and Aldermen. The clause is perfect in its injustice. Another clause continues to the present corperators the execution of all " charities." Now supplying the inhabitants of a town with water is, in point of law, a " charity." Everybody, therefore, will see at once that there is a device—an ingenious device—to keep the pipe. water revenue in the hands of the present corporators. They have been, it is true, convietrd by the Court of Chancery, anti that conviction af firmed by the House of Lords, simply of misapplying sotne 75,0001. of that revenue. No matter—they are the "properest" men to continue the mismanagement —so have sworn Lord Lyndhurst and the "foam. nate" Duke. But I shall have to address my countrymen at such length in your next publication, that I close for want of time at present. lhere is one consolation, Irishmen. Let me distil it into your patient and secret edrs. It is this— The report of the " Ra:lway " Commission has just been pub lished. It treats of every thing. There is, amongst other railway cui iosities, half a page of direct puff—plain and palpable puff —on the Provincial Bank. But with all its farrago, it contains one matter of portentous importance. It proves—listen, countrymen l—it proves that the people of Ireland are now in number Eicarr MILLIONS FIVE HUNDRED TIIoUSAND soms--aye, and bodies too. The great Franklin, when insulted by England, bid his countrymen increase and multip'y. `•Ve want not the advice—we ♦aE eight millions and a half—willing slaves !!!—oli ! no. Pardon !—I am speaking to Ireland, my client, while I am writing to you; yet I am very faithfully yours, Richard Barrett, &.q DANIEL O'CONNELL. SLAVE APPRENTIC ESHIP. The following characteristic and appropriate address appears in the Grenada Gazelle of the 9th of June:— " THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR TO TUE PR,GLIAL •PPRRNTICED LABouums, "My Good Friends,—l write this to you, that you may a'l know that a law has passed the Legislature of this colony making you all free on the Ist of August next. You know by King William's law that the non-prxdials, that is, all those who did not work in the tidds, were all to be freed on the Ist of August this year, 1838, and that you, who were called prmdials, who did work in the fields, were to work for your employers two years more, as apprentices—that was, to the year 1640. Now see what your employers have done for you. They have gi v en you your complete Ilvedom two years berme they were obliged to do so by the law. Now attend, anti I will explain to you why they have done so. It is be you have behaved well, and and oi.iedient to the old law, and because t l) l7,:y at a zs r e e y srre h y a n y ll e U b ' e llTd o o r a d l e i r i l l Y s your power, when you ate free, to keep up that good character which you have made as apprentices; and this your emP'oYors consider entitles you to your freedom, at the same titne e that King Willi ne.am's law m a k es free the uon.p; wdials, so as to :rak you all the as • " You have worked well for your employers : now, hear me, and work well for yourselves; because your employers will now pay you money wages for your labour. All tree people work—ay, and work hard too. In England, and other free countries, it is the pride of the most respectable of the labourers to boast that they work hard fir their bread, and that they bring up their children, give them education, and keep their wives smart arid neat, by the work of their own hands. 'Now, wit you be un grateful to your employers, and will you neglect y cur wives and chil dren, and not work, because you are no longer aoprentices ? No, to be sure you will not ; you will not be such fools—for, suppose you do not work well, how can your employer make sugar; and suppose he cannot make sugar, how can he pay you money-wages ? Therefore, you see, it is your interest to work well, and regifarty, t hat he may be able to pay you money.wages. You know lam your friend and Governer ; you know I vcver deceive you, and when you conic to my house to make complaints, I always see you myself, and tell you tt hat is for your good. Now, hear my advice. I beg you to show your gratitude to your employers for making you all free, by conducting yourselves orderly and quietly,.and by performing the work you engage to do for wages well and quickly, 1)o not listen to what some foolish people may tell you about being free, and that you may now sleep or sit down in the shade as much as you please—that is all nonsense. Rea.ember that all free people, who are able, must work, and that those who wish to be re spectable toot k haul and save up their money, and when they get too old, then theysit down and have something comfortalle :o dye upon. I her t Etre, be industrious ; work well, and try to lay by money against you get old, and snake for yourselves good characters fur honesty and industry, and you wi.l be sure always to gat good service. I must a'so caution you against wa n d er i ng a b out the country, because, as free peco• . c. You will get yourselves into troub:e by so doing, becauso of the Vagrant Act. " I have a t present no , .l.ing more to say to you, but that I hope you will pray to God Almighty to bless your gracious young Otteen Victoria, and that you will also offer up your prayers for your employers, 'di(' have made you all free on the Ist of A ugust next. " I am your friend, C. J. noyLE, Lieutenant. Governor. " Gorertiment.house, June 8, 1838." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC :lOU RN L A discussion, or rather a conversation, of some interest occurred in the House of Commons last night en the stile ject of the management of the British Museum. Mr. Hawes made objections to the internal regulations in t' e distribution and superintendence of the various d part ment s, which induced Sir Robert Pee! to advert to the rep( rt of the Select Committee, and particularly to the rccommeeda tions it contained. The Right Hon B.renet stated bow far the trustees had carried those re.ommendations into effect, and how far they' had not pail attention to them, en the ground that they did not concur in them, ryd as an in dependent body were not bound to adopt such as they thought would be disadvantageou s to the institution and injurious to its objects. We own that to us. he seemed to make out a good case upon three points—l. 'file fill ing up of vacancies among the trustees : 2. The mode in which each department was placed under one re sponsible head ; and 3. The expense of habitations for the principal officers. We do not say that we agree with Sir Robert Peel in thinking , that the principal officers ought to be lodged under the roof of the Mtiseum, but only that he established that the cost of building houses for them would not be, as had been supposed, 5,000/. each, but about half that rum. What Mr. Warburton suggested upon this point deserves at tention, viz., that as the Museum is a perpetually increasing establishment, the time may come when there will not ba room for the officers under its roof, end the apartmen's they had occupied would then be ill adapted to the pur pose of public exhibition. There is no question that the management of the British Museum within the last few years has been vastly improved, and it is perhaps fair to at tribute no small part of the improvement to the inquiri's of the Committee and to the active exertions of its Chair man. At the suggestion of Mr. C. Lushington and several other Members, Lord John Russell consented to postpone the consideration of the amendments of the Lords to the Benefices Pluralities Bill until Monday. This was the only Order of the Day on which any considerable dis cuss:on was expected.—Morning Chronicle. Of the munificent subscription which was made last year fur the relief of Highland destitution, it is perhaps rot Rent - rally known that the London Committee, after having liberally satisfied the more pressing demands of the crisis, retain a surptus of nearly 20,0001., which has been care fully deposited at. interest in a Scotch bank, and drawn upon as often as straggling exigencies required. That. a s sum should have accumulated so much beyond the imme diate necessities of the case is a circumstance which may. be easily accounted for. These matters cannot always be ca'culated to a nicety. In stating the gross amount that weu'd he probably needed, the Committee, we are cer tain, made as near an approximat:on to the truth as they possibly could ; and when we bear in mind that public sympathy would prefer to be rather over the mark than under it-that it was wise to make some provision for uafcreseen contingencies, several of which have ac tually occurred—that even after the subscription had been closed by advertisement considerable sums pre viously collected in remote parts of England were paid in— and, finally, that the fisheries and harvest were both earlier and snore productive than had been counted on, whereby many of the sufferers were unexpectedly released from their dependence on the fund—when these facts, we say, are borne in mind, the accumulation of the surplus in question will occasion no surprise whatever. And while the Committee, as we have good reason to know, exercised the utmost c:r cumspection and economy in all their advances, neither are they chargeable with having parsimoniously hoarded the couttibutions intrusted to their cue. According to the testimony of the co-operating Relief Comthittees in Edin burgh and Glasgow, every necessary attention has been paid to the proper discharge of their important trust : so much so, that these northern Committees, being evidently unaware of the distress still existing in the remote district of She:lend, have reported their impression that the purpos: of the subscription have been fully answered, and that at present there remains no greater destitution than the people are commonly accustomed to. How far such an impression may have been superinduced by the known anxiety of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Committees to en courage emigration, is a point which, notwithstanding their disclaimer of any wish to divert the surplus funds into that channel, we cannot undertake to solve. Be this as it may, the question, what shall be done with the money ' has lately been forced upon the London Committee by one of their own Members, who having hit upon the happy notion that these surp!us funds would form a tolerable substitute for a testa met.tary legacy which he would otherwise be obliged to make, has succeeded in carrying a proposition, whereby (if we do not spoil matters), no small sum will be spared to his heirs, and no small " glamour" practised upon the public. The resolutions of the Committee upon this precious job, which were carried at a comparatively thin meetingby a bare majority of one. have reccctly been advertised in our journal; but, from various causes, we have notyetbeen able tosubject them te tha c.s'iga'i n they det e:vc. Let our readers attend. A gallant ds speefe, who delights in imagining that by a similar perversion of funds he became the founder of the floating hospital called " the Dreadnought," becomes un well a few summers ago, and visits the Strathpeffer Spa, in Rcssshire, a part of the country where the worthy invalid has souse interest in doing popular things, ina-much as a Presbytery therein returns him annually as a lay represen tative to the General Assembly of the Scotch Church. With recruited health, though still not so hale as we could ti e li , io i rn s . b ; , ama tl no re dngn o ea ld eloa p rrd a g s iresi i on f or f oun di ng hospitals returns upon gcliyr,cle of f after pr i er ie s nd ee s u , ttinigie R an o a s e s !! s v i e i r s e u b Water scri p- Infirmary, which will probably be called " The Advance nouhl," was fairly set afloat with prospects of usefulness and an absence of endowment that loft nothing to be de sired but the present or posthumous liberality of the founder. Meanwhile, the benevolent Spa-drinker bad be come identified wi II other interestin g objects of affection whose claims upon him arc even stronger than those of his Strathpeffer progeny. Still the endowment of the High land institution could not be wholly lost sight of. In this trying emergency a large surplus fund happens to be pro videntially stumbled on, as in the case of " the Dread nought ;" and hence, with the view of putting " the Ad vance-nought" on a footing independent of the Honourable Gentleman's will, the London Committee have been so laboriously canvassed in favour of the Rosshire hospital, that the English money subscribed for the relief of a High land famine is threatened to be turned aside for relieving the founder of that hospital from the necessity of provid:ng for its permanency. This is the real history of the Strath- peffer job, in opposition to which, notwithstanding the im portunate letters and memorials got up in its favour from divers local parties, we now call upon the London Com mittee's constituents and supporters to strengthen the hands of the honest and overborne minority. To give an adequate Expression of our astonishment at the cool effrontery which produced the proposal, and the reprehensible inadvertency which acquiesced in it, is wholly beyond our power. A more flagrant viola tion of the original purpose for which the funds in question were contributed ire can hardly conceive. Why, if a sum of money subscribed for the express object of securing the Moe pr posers return as representative for Nottingham or Pai-ley had been applied to the furtherance of his election as elder for a Rosi-shire Presbytery, the misappropriation eculd trot pos,ihly have been greater than that which is now contemplated ; and the elm/ming professions whereby a roicitude is expressed to accomplish as near as may be the beneficent do sign of the decors, on'y renders the matter the more odious and discreditable. Talk of approaching the beneficent &siert, forsooth ! The deli ;n was a special one, and as distinctly defined ss intelligible words could make it. What the subscril'ers gave their money for was the fof Highland suffering in a spac'ficd form, and under a particular emergency. With this design the Strethp, her business Las no rihaity whatever ; and if the lat!tr be defentib!e en the ground of its re/jesting distressed Ilighlandere, by enabling the m to mi grate from one county to another for the benefit of their hea'th, the same argument seielit equally justify an appli cafon of the funds to emigration purposes, inasmuch as the pl,y , ieal seffetiega of whole district- might thereby be al d by a se-scnable removal to more piomosing and ereductive fields of iudustrv. Besides, how doss this gentleman and his Strathpuffer sur.perters know that the le deumAs moil this fund i.re vet at an end ? Within th , s.s six weeks the Conin.i tee hove voted 5601. to the existing distrt as in Shetland ; and if :he accounts from that quarter he tierliy of credit, the present rufferiaq s cf the Shetlandere are such, that the whole sorplui To hand would n. t he too much to relieve titer. • provide c0,,i1 for tare ing purpose o t` - e subscriptiqn ; tland case is overstated, was_ t . :e so,e on the srepn:dtion that the Sae purpose is to be ore n :tetrads , concludes, that I departed from think) formerly gave iii4Llin a d ad " therafora, deer (neompetentle e would lead them to to the des7i.ute cavers of Pais , l i e ,i y, the conmittee in any cbgree . , the grant P of 2,000/., which :vest of Scotland ; end let us add that loam c: env: m the re. the funds the advocacy f such an applic i anon o he . might be turn their thoughts to the m m i a se y re hd i .p r e otid: . t. t o do . n e ol' a t n he o l t ia ie nt e .l t ... no unset vi.., able reconinientonion to any Patliamentary whnrn ' 1) - a ti i t it le Committee can g ve the pul l e e'ie trod: LT. s act ry g nice 'r sebject the Ilighlarders to any r•:..cur ospirau that bad crops and unsuci essful f t s t ,) o ti tear' of privations for many years to come, the pro Oral, to diet re a ai.gie pat ny e f this money from its original rear pose carnet possibly he list ene d t o. Strathpt ffer hcspitel m-..v be a reuen-needed and usaful institution ; but ifso, let cs h ,ve a s, p ,rate subscription for it on its own merits. Tiie benefits which its friend s wish to confer on the iliehlanders are utterly for. ien to those which the lini s lisb übA,Tiers cont crnelated, inenmuch as they arc of an ortli- EA'y, p ene r..,e.eunt character, ~ .nereas the t er. lon. urt, iam arty dor inch ay, am, el, rg,